Publications

A study identifying two universal pathways in demographic transition by analyzing changes in fertility and life expectancy across 237 countries and territories from 1800 to 2020.

A study on the mechanisms of the self-organization of institutions by establishing evolutionary dynamical-systems games.

A study formalizing a minimal model of the evolution of kinship structures and showing the mechanisms of how the diversity of kinship structures depend on population size and cultural mutation rate.

A study showing how competitive gift-giving can generate economic and social disparities, causing the transition from band, to tribe, chiefdom, and kingdom.

A study showing how gift relationships drive transitions in social network structure and the emergence of inequality.

A study explaining the emergence of kinship structures and descent systems through multilevel evolutionary simulation.

A study showing the evolution of family systems and their corresponding socio-economic structures using asimple model of the lifecycles of farmer families.

A response article clarifying the interpretation of the authors' model of the cultural incest taboo and kinship structures.

A study on the emergence of kinship systems with specific rules—like “a son of the Sun should marry a daughter of the Moon” from a general interaction pattern in human societies: in-laws cooperate while mating rivals compete.

A study demonstrating threshold phenomena in delayed depopulation within a simple foot-and-mouth disease model.